Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Solowjow
Anatoly Solovyov | |
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Country: | USSR / Russia |
selected on | March 1, 1978 |
Calls: | 5 space flights |
Start of the first space flight: |
June 7, 1988 |
Landing of the last space flight: |
February 19, 1998 |
Time in space: | 651d 0h 3min 28s |
EVA inserts: | 16 |
EVA total duration: | 78h 48min |
retired on | February 1999 |
Space flights | |
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Anatoli Jakowlewitsch Solowjow ( Russian Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв ; born January 16, 1948 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Soviet and Russian cosmonaut . He is married and has two sons.
education
Solovyov graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Aviation College in Chernigov in 1972. He then became a pilot in the easternmost military district of the Soviet Union .
Cosmonaut
In 1976 he decided to start training as a cosmonaut. After he was accepted into the inner circle of future cosmonauts, his special cosmonaut training began in 1979. He was trained for missions with the Soyuz-T spacecraft and for the Salyut-7 and Mir space stations. From 1981 he then took part in five missions that also took him to the space stations.
With 16 spacecraft missions and a total time of 78 hours and 48 minutes in free space, Solovyov is by far the most experienced person in this work discipline.
Awards
- Order of Lenin
- "Golden Star" medal
- Order of the October Revolution ,
- Order of Friendship among Peoples and six other military awards
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Anatoli Jakowlewitsch Solowjow at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Solowjow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Biography of Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Solowjow at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Solovyov, Anatoly Jakowlewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet and russian cosmonaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |